Public Health and Epidemiology Foundations Course

Name: Public Health and Epidemiology Foundations Course
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Connect public health functions, population measures, epidemiological reasoning, surveillance, screening, prevention, and evidence communication.

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Paris, Abu Dhabi, Zanzibar, Cairo, Nice, Barcelona and more
Next session: 2 – 6 November 2026, Paris
Average fee: 5,750 €

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Overview

Public Health and Epidemiology Foundations Course is a one-week foundation course for healthcare, community, municipal, policy, data, and program personnel, who leave with a Population Health Evidence Workbook. The course connects essential public health functions, determinants and equity, population measures, descriptive and analytic reasoning, surveillance, screening, prevention, study designs, and evidence communication without clinical diagnosis or advanced modeling. Agile Leaders Training Center presents public health and epidemiology foundations for population-level decisions.

Who Should Attend

Teams beginning work in population health and public health services
Personnel responsible for community health and prevention activities
Functions supporting surveillance, program data, and evidence reporting
Teams responsible for policy, planning, and multisectoral health action
Personnel supporting screening, health promotion, and service equity

The course assumes basic workplace numeracy and leaves out clinical diagnosis, patient treatment, laboratory methods, and advanced statistical modeling.

Departments and Industries

The course supports organizations that use population evidence to protect health, prevent harm, and improve services.

Public health and community health services
Healthcare planning, quality, and prevention functions
Municipal, environmental, and occupational health teams
Education, humanitarian, and nonprofit organizations
Policy, research, insurance, and health-data units

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Apply essential public health functions to population issues
Use incidence, prevalence, risk, rate, and ratio measures
Analyze health patterns by time, place, and person
Compare descriptive, observational, and experimental study designs
Evaluate surveillance, screening, and prevention evidence
Build concise evidence messages for public health decisions

Course Agenda

Day 1: Public Health Functions and Determinants

Essential Public Health Functions Map
Population Health Problem Definition Canvas
Social and Environmental Determinants Framework
Health Equity and Distribution Analysis Grid
Prevention and Health Promotion Action Ladder

Day 2: Epidemiological Measures and Patterns

Population, Case, Exposure, and Outcome Definitions
Incidence and Prevalence Calculation Guide
Risk, Rate, Ratio, and Proportion Comparison
Time, Place, and Person Description Matrix
Table, Chart, and Map Selection Method

Day 3: Study Designs and Causal Reasoning

Descriptive and Analytic Study Design Map
Cross-Sectional, Cohort, and Case-Control Comparison
Experimental and Community Intervention Overview
Bias, Confounding, and Chance Identification Checklist
Association, Causation, and Alternative Explanation Guide

Day 4: Surveillance, Screening, and Action

Public Health Surveillance Cycle
Signal Verification and Baseline Comparison Method
Screening Pathway Benefit-Harm Appraisal
Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Prevention Matrix
Evidence-to-Action Communication Template

Day 5: Public Health Evidence Practice

Suggested Exercise: Public Health Function Selection
Suggested Exercise: Population Measure Calculation
Suggested Exercise: Pattern and Study Design Interpretation
Suggested Exercise: Screening and Prevention Appraisal
Capstone Exercise: Population Health Evidence Workbook

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities with fictional communicable disease, chronic disease, environmental health, injury, and service-access data.

Suggested activity: frame a population issue using determinants, equity, and public health functions.
Suggested activity: calculate measures and describe patterns by time, place, and person.
Suggested activity: compare study designs and identify bias, confounding, and interpretation limits.
Suggested activity: appraise a surveillance or screening scenario and communicate an action recommendation.

FAQs

Who suits public health and epidemiology foundations training, and what does it assume?

Healthcare, community, municipal, policy, program, data, prevention, and research-support personnel suit the course; it assumes only basic workplace numeracy.

How does public health and epidemiology foundations training differ from advanced biostatistics?

Public health and epidemiology foundations training emphasizes concepts, measures, study choices, interpretation, surveillance, prevention, and communication rather than advanced probability, statistical software, multivariable modeling, or mathematical derivation.

What is the difference between incidence and prevalence in epidemiology?

Incidence describes new occurrence during a defined period or amount of time at risk, while prevalence describes existing cases in a population at a specified point or across a period.

How is descriptive epidemiology used in public health?

Descriptive epidemiology organizes counts and rates by time, place, and person to identify affected populations, detect patterns, generate questions, guide immediate action, and communicate the scale and distribution of a health issue.

Conclusion

Participants leave with a Population Health Evidence Workbook containing function maps, determinant grids, measure guides, pattern displays, study-design comparisons, bias checks, surveillance cycles, screening appraisals, and communication templates. The workbook turns population data into structured reasoning. It helps teams explain evidence, recognize limits, and connect public health findings to proportionate action.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Location	Dates	Duration	Mode	Price
Paris	Week 45, 2026 2 – 6 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Abu Dhabi	Week 45, 2026 2 – 6 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Zanzibar	Week 45, 2026 8 – 12 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,500
Cairo	Week 47, 2026 16 – 20 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Nice	Week 47, 2026 16 – 20 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Barcelona	Week 48, 2026 23 – 27 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Singapore	Week 48, 2026 23 – 27 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Chicago	Week 48, 2026 29 November – 3 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€12,000
Tokyo	Week 49, 2026 30 November – 4 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€10,000
Seoul	Week 51, 2026 14 – 18 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€10,000
Madrid	Week 52, 2026 21 – 25 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
London	Week 53, 2026 28 December 2026 – 1 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Abu Dhabi	Week 53, 2026 28 December 2026 – 1 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Phuket	Week 53, 2027 3 – 7 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Johannesburg	Week 01, 2027 10 – 14 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Zoom	Week 02, 2027 11 – 15 January 2027	1 Week	Online	€1,500
Amsterdam	Week 04, 2027 25 – 29 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Prague	Week 04, 2027 25 – 29 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Muscat	Week 04, 2027 31 January – 4 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
London	Week 05, 2027 1 – 5 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700

Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

OverviewPublic Health and Epidemiology Foundations Course is a one-week foundation course for healthcare, community, municipal, policy, data, and program personnel, who leave with a Population Health Evidence Workbook. The course connects essential public health functions, determinants and equity, population measures, descriptive and analytic reasoning, s…

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Public Health and Epidemiology Foundations Course